This weekend saw nine Teams change place in the table, and FC Bayern München took over first place for the first time since 2008! It has been a battle for top of the table all season against Bayer 04 Leverkusen, but could this be a sign of things to come? Just below Bayern [...]

Groups A through D resume UEFA Champions League group play on Tuesday, as the tournament’s initial stage enters its home-stretch: the reverse fixtures; second-half of the schedule; the point after which we can start comparing teams with more certainty.
To this point, we can only be reasonably confident that (from these groups) Chelsea, Porto, and [...]

Between them, Real Madrid and AC Milan have 16 European titles, finishing second another seven times. In the 54-year history of the European Cup and Champions League, roughly two-fifths of the finals have featured one of these clubs. Milan’s presence has been slightly less frequent, having made eleven finals appearances (winning seven), but [...]

With World Soccer Reader’s first edition of its World XI – it’s weekly, collaborative evaluation of the world’s best players – we’re aware some will see us as jumping into the debate: who is the world’s best player?
Perhaps we’re asking too much when we say that this article is not intended to opine on [...]

A summary of the week’s leading headlines in the Premier League, including possible Chelsea exits for Deco and Ricardo Carvalho and a possible return to England for Arjen Robben.